Microsoft makes the world’s first AI-generated whisky after robots pick the perfect tipple from 70 MILLION recipes

Mackmyra, the Swedish distillery have brought in artificial brains to calculate the dream dram

Patrick Knox

14 May 2019, 0:15

Updated: 14 May 2019, 0:49

MICROSOFT has helped distil the first ever whisky that has been developed by artificial intelligence.

The tech giant, which is usually associated with more sober products, teamed up with a Swedish whisky distillery to find the perfect recipe.

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Robot grade whisky is on its wayCredit: Mackmyra Whisky

Details of the process used by the award-winning distillery, Mackmyra, have not been released.

But according to Popular Mechanics, master blenders feeds raw data into software, which is run on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and AI cognitive services.

The inputted info includes legacy recipes, sales numbers and what customers like.

Algorithms then sift out more than 70 million recipes and predicts combinations which are likely to have the perfect flavour.

The possibilities for different whiskies are said to be endless.

It is really exciting to let AI be a complement to the craft of producing a high-quality whisky

Master blender Angela D’Orazio

In fact master blenders, who are responsible for the whisky flavour and recipes, can spend their whole lives tasting and experimenting to hone the best ones possible.

And this is where the distillery Mackmyra, founded in 1999, wants AI to speed up this process.

Master blender Angela D’Orazio said: “We always strive to challenge the traditions in the very traditional whisky trade and that’s something we really do now when we develop a whisky with the help of AI.

“We see AI as a part of our digital development, it is really exciting to let AI be a complement to the craft of producing a high-quality whisky.

“For me as a master blender it is a great achievement to be able to say that I'm now also a mentor for the first ever created AI whisky in the world.”

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